So occasionally I still CRAFT, yup, I don’t spend ALL my time in the kitchen… Although this craft was FOR a food item… so I’m not sure if that counts as really stepping away! These Glitter name toppers would be cute in pretty much ANYTHING, cake, cupckaes, doughnuts… even something NON food related… but why? I used them in these raspberry curd tarts.

Now for the CAKE! Always my favorite from any party! I created one themed food for each of the main characters, Black and white Puppy Chow for Carlos, Broken edible Magic Mirror shards for Evie and Victory Pizza for Jay. For MAL I decided to use the “long live evil” Graffiti tag she creates on her locker and all over the isle of lost. It was perfect to put onto a cake.

It’s spring break AND it’s autism awareness month! So we’re having fun with some sensory play to keep my Aspie kids active and off the screen this week as much as possible. There are a ton of other crafts we’rd doing but I wanted to share this SUPER easy one that is a huge hit with all my kids.

Two years ago I made a child sized crochet bearded Santa hat. It was adorable AND it’s been a HUGE hit! Anyway I’ve been getting a lot of requests for larger sizes, SO this year I sat down and wrote a bunch more sizes, BUT because it would have made the original post GINORMOUS I separated the hats to this new post (you can get the double loop Santa beards in FOUR sizes here)

Making yarn Pom Poms are SUPER easy with the right tools, like all these pom pom makers . But what about when you want a REALLY big yarn ball? Even the extra large maker isn’t big enough for me! SO with a little cardboard you can create your own!